- 1. For the Lorde had said vnto Abram, Get thee out of thy countrey, and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers house vnto the land that I will shewe thee.
- 2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and will blesse thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing.
- 3. I will also blesse them that blesse thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
- 4. So Abram departed, euen as ye Lorde spake vnto him, and Lot went with him. (And Abram was seuentie and fiue yeere olde, when he departed out of Haran)
- 5. Then Abram tooke Sarai his wife, & Lot his brothers sonne, and all their substance that they possessed, and the soules that they had gotten in Haran, & they departed, to goe to the land of Canaan: & to the land of Canaan they came.
- 6. So Abram passed through the land vnto the place of Shechem, and vnto the plaine of Moreh (and the Canaanite was then in ye land)
- 7. And the Lord appeared vnto Abram, and said, Vnto thy seede will I giue this land; there builded he an altar vnto the Lord, which appeared vnto him.
- 8. Afterward remouing thence vnto a moutaine Eastward from Beth-el, he pitched his tent hauing Beth-el on the Westside, & Haai on the East: and there he built an altar vnto the Lord, and called on the Name of the Lord.
- 9. Againe Abram went forth going & iourneying toward the South.
- 10. Then there came a famine in the land: therefore Abram went downe into Egypt to soiourne there: for there was a great famine in the lande.
- 11. And when he drewe neere to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Beholde nowe, I know that thou art a faire woman to looke vpo:
- 12. Therefore it will come to passe, that when the Egyptians see thee, they will say, She is his wife: so will they kill me, but they will keepe thee aliue.
- 13. Say, I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, & that my life may be preserued by thee.
- 14. Nowe when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman: for she was very faire.
- 15. And the Princes of Pharaoh sawe her, and commended her vnto Pharaoh: so the woman was taken into Pharaohs house:
- 16. Who intreated Abram well for her sake, and he had sheepe, and beeues, and hee asses, and men seruants and maide seruants, and shee asses, and camelles.
- 17. But the Lorde plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai Abrams wife.
- 18. Then Pharaoh called Abram, and saide, Why hast thou done this vnto me? Wherefore diddest thou not tell me, that she was thy wife?
- 19. Why saidest thou, She is my sister, that I should take her to be my wife? Nowe therefore beholde thy wife, take her and goe thy way.
- 20. And Pharaoh gaue men commaundement concerning him: and they conueyed him forth, and his wife, and all that he had.
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